Bravo Music is a concert band music publishing company, founded in 1999. Located in
Deerfield Beach, Florida
Deerfield Beach is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States, just south of the Palm Beach County, Florida, Palm Beach County line. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 86,859, making it the Broward County# ...
, it is a subsidiary of
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
-based
Brain Music. It is one of the few companies to offer original Japanese sheet music and recordings to America and Europe.
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Bravo Music is a music sales and distribution company.
Brain Music, and its parent company and principal is
Brain Music of
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
. Bravo is involved in the sale of sheet music, CD, DVDs, the majority of which are produced in Japan. It has a large range of recordings from the
All Japan Band Competition, the "world's largest music contest", which represents 14,000 bands from all age levels. It also offers original works and transcriptions for wind ensembles by Japanese and international composers, such as
Yasuhide Ito
is a contemporary Japanese composer
A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled p ...
,
Satoshi Yagisawa,
,
Yo Goto,
James Barnes,
Wataru Hokoyama
is a Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator based in Hollywood, California. He left his birth nation of Japan at the age of 16 to attend the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan. He later attended the Cleveland Institute o ...
and
Tetsunosuke Kushida
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*, Japanese page and member of Shinsengumi
*, Japanese water polo player
*, Japanese businessman and poli ...
.
Bravo Music's sales territories include all of the North, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania and the Middle East.
History
Bravo's parent company, Brain Music, was founded in 1976 in
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
, Japan. Brain is a recording/publishing company specializing in wind, classical, traditional and vocal music. Brain also cooperates with the
All-Japan Band Association The All Japan Band Association (AJBA) (全日本吹奏楽連盟/Zennihon Suisōgaku Renmei) is an organization that exists solely for the purpose of facilitating annual music competition among Japanese wind bands. This competition has largely promot ...
and other organizations to record and sell products related to their annual national band contests.
Bravo was formed in 1999 as the distributor for Brain DVDs, CDs, and sheet music in addition to their own products. Their product range has increased over time, to just under 1,500 titles as of January 2013.
Titles
Instructional and Training DVDs:
*WINDS Training Series
Performance DVDs:
*Japan's Best Series (All Japan Band Contest Best Performances)
*Championship Series (Japan Wind Orchestra and Ensemble Contest Best Performances)
*Univisual Series (Concert performances by Tokyo Kosei Wind Orchestra and Douglas Bostock)
*Feste Romane (Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Central Band's concert performances)
Reference CDs:
*New Arrange Collection
*New Original Collection
*Seika Girls HS Band Concert
*Music of Satoshi Yagisawa
Original Works:
*Machu Picchu - City in the Sky - Satoshi Yagisawa
*Gloriosa - Yasuhide Ito
*Symphonic Dances - Yosuke Fukuda
*A Prelude to the Shining Day - Yo Goto
*Fu-Mon - Hiroshi Hoshina
*Les trois notes du Japon - Toshio Mashima
Arrangements/Transcriptions:
*De Vogelhandler - C. Zeller/ Eiji Suzuki
*Merry Widow Selections - F. Lehar/Eiji Suzuki
*Die Fledermaus - Selections from Operetta
*Turandot - G. Puccini/Yo Goto
*Dance of the Seven Veils from Salome - R. Strauss/Kazuhiro Morita
Anime Film Score Series:
*Symphonic Suite Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind - Joe Hisaishi/Kazuhiro Morita
*Laputa - Castle in the Sky - Joe Hisaishi/Kazuhiro Morita
*My Neighbor Totoro - Joe Hisaishi/Yo Goto
*Kiki's Delivery Service - Joe Hisaishi/Kazuhiro Morita
*Princess Mononoke - Joe Hisaishi/Kazuhiro Morita
*Howl's Moving Castle - Symphonic Fantasy for Band -Joe Hisaishi/Yo Goto
Popstage:
*Foster on My Mind - S. Foster/T. Hoshide
*Samba De Loves You - Shin Kazuhara
*Samba Express - Toshio Mashima
Concert Marches:
*Light of Hope - Concert March & Processional - Hiroki Takahashi
*March–April–May - Masao Yabe
References
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External links
Bravo MusicAll Japan Band Association (Japanese Only)Wind Bands and Cultural Identity in Japanese Schools
Music publishing companies of the United States
Sheet music publishing companies
Music production companies
Companies based in Florida
Publishing companies established in 1999
1999 establishments in Florida